Cinnamon won't run with kernel 3.7.6

[Nick Payne]

Mint 14 amd64, Cinnamon 1.6.7. I just installed kernel 3.7.6 from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/, and on reboot I have the Gnome desktop and menu - the Cinnamon menu and panel are gone. Searching syslog and I find:

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Feb  7 15:56:31 nick-mint gnome-session[2157]: WARNING: Session 'cinnamon' runnable check failed: Child process exited with code 1

Boot into kernel 3.7.5 instead and Cinnamon is running as normal.

[d00med]

I have it running here, using the install script from this site. Never had any issues with the kernels from there. I have a Linux friendly computer though.

[Nick Payne]

I used the same script to install...when I checked after running it, all four packages were indicated as successfully installed.

[zerozero]

Nick Payne,
have you checked if (after the kernel upgrade) you still have direct rendering working?
what's the output of

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inxi -Gx

[chazdg24]

I have it running here, using the install script from this site. Never had any issues with the kernels from there. I have a Linux friendly computer though.

This is the site I use. What is strange is I have Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10 & Mint 14 installed. I am always able to install any kernel update for 12.04. The first time I did it, the experimental Catalyst driver was installed (not sure why but it did it automatically).

No such luck for 12.10 and Mint. I get error messages when compiling the kernel. Should I remove the fglrx drivers and install ATI Driver 13.2 Beta first and then try to install the kernel? Any suggestions are appreciated as I am determined to make this work. I have subsequently removed Ubuntu 12.10. I plan on a dual boot with 12.04 and Mint 14. By the way, there is a major improvement in performance with Kernel 3.7.6 with Ubuntu 12.04.

Thanks.

[chazdg24]

Installing the beta ATI driver is simple. Kernel upgrade still doesn't work...